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Étienne de La Boétie

1530 - 1563

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Étienne or Estienne de La Boétie (French: [etjɛn də la bɔesi] , also [bwati] or [bɔeti]; Occitan: Esteve de La Boetiá; 1 November 1530 – 18 August 1563) was a French magistrate, classicist, writer, poet and political theorist, best remembered for his friendship with essayist Michel de Montaigne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne de La Boétie has received more than 332,318 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Étienne de La Boétie is the 2nd most popular political scientist, the 546th most popular biography from France (down from 504th in 2019) and the most popular French Political Scientist.

Étienne de La Boétie is most famous for his essay "Discourse on Voluntary Servitude," in which he argues that the people of France are enslaved to the tyranny of the monarchy because they have been tricked into thinking that they are free.

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS

Among political scientists, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 2 out of 46. Before him are Samuel P. Huntington. After him are Francis Fukuyama, Johan Galtung, Christian Lous Lange, Georg Jellinek, Harold Lasswell, Hans Morgenthau, Ralf Dahrendorf, Aleksandr Dugin, Benedict Anderson, and Gene Sharp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1530, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 3. Before him are Ivan the Terrible, and Jean Bodin. After him are Uesugi Kenshin, Yasuke, Jean Nicot, Ruy López de Segura, Anastasia Romanovna, Louis, Prince of Condé, Jan Kochanowski, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Christopher Báthory. Among people deceased in 1563, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 1. After him are Francis, Duke of Guise, Sebastian Castellio, Heinrich Glarean, Andrea Schiavone, Teodósio I, Duke of Braganza, Martynas Mažvydas, and Yi Gwang-sik.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 546 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Tati (1907), Jacques Monod (1910), Marius Petipa (1818), Theuderic I (485), Claude Chabrol (1930), and Lothair of France (941). After him are Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Michel Piccoli (1925), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), Éric Rohmer (1920), Jules Michelet (1798), and René Laennec (1781).

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Among POLITICAL SCIENTISTS In France

Among political scientists born in France, Étienne de La Boétie ranks 1. After him are Maurice Duverger (1917), and Olivier Roy (1949).

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